I like the off road tire and magnetic tire, but I believe there are some serious challenges ahead before either will see the light of day. The other two seem doable with today's technology, especially the hybrid.

Do you have car or truck tires? We've had 2 set of Duelers that came oem and had very bad luck with them. Cupping problems on both began at 20.000 and both were dealer serviced. I've talked to other owners and different dealers and they all have the same story that the tire doesn't match the vehicle.That didn't make much sense to me, but it really does seem to be the case.

Anyhow these tires seem cool, but they have to be far down the road. I'm wonderiing if they plan on manufacturing and selling the rim, or I guess mechanism is a better word, and you have to buy them together? Like the tire is made to the rim and you bolt the entire thing on? If that's the future I hope it's a long way off.

Girion47:Death Eats a Cracker: Oh cool! More expensive tires that will still wear out at 30,000 miles.

My Dunlops have lasted me 31K miles so far, and I haven't been easy on them. There's no cracking and the tread is still almost as thick as new.

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And they're rated for my max speed of 145.

Ditto here, Dunlops were recommended by my local dealer (it was a Goodyear shop, too-they could have tried to upsell me to the Goodyears, but with my price point and urban driving needs, they recommeded Dunlops). 30,000+ and going strong.

I have always been a Continental fan myself, but without actually doing research I have a bad feeling about how they are doing as a company. This winter I had to replace a snow tire i bought last winter (ExtremeWinterContact) and everyone was out of stock on the tire and a few places said they cut back on manufacturing this year and that is why.

/Conti ExtremeContact DW in the summer//Conti ExtremeWinterContact in the winter///Quite pleased with both

Loki009:I have always been a Continental fan myself, but without actually doing research I have a bad feeling about how they are doing as a company. This winter I had to replace a snow tire i bought last winter (ExtremeWinterContact) and everyone was out of stock on the tire and a few places said they cut back on manufacturing this year and that is why.

/Conti ExtremeContact DW in the summer//Conti ExtremeWinterContact in the winter///Quite pleased with both

I run my Dunlop Sports from March-November. Dec-February I'm running Dunlop Wintersport Tires, I got them with some 06 WRX wheels, they had about 5k miles on them when I bought them, they're unshakable so far.

I doubt most of those would ever come to pass or even be necessary. A tire that splits in three when you corner? Unless you drive a formula one car you're never going to be cornering fast enough for something like that to even make a difference.

That hybrid tire seems like a bad idea too, I doubt the technology will ever be able to react in the split second it takes for you to swerve to avoid something in the road. Only having 2 inches of tire touching the road is never a good thing.

They look like something that came out of the mind of Hollywood rather than engineers.

About the MagTrack: Great, until you corner and the wheel comes off the "Rim" at the slightest sideways pressure.

About the offroad tire: Awesome, until you hit a bump just a little too hard, and damage the rim from which the segments fold.

About the Hybrid tire: Cool, so less of it touches the road... Lemme know how that works with, you know, Braking.

About the Sport tire: So you have three separate tires? Are they freewheeling independent of each other? No? Good luck setting up a functioning linkage. Yes? Great, so with each wheel well getting one brake disc, it'll only be on one of the three tires. Which reduces your traction contact with the road when braking to 1/3rd.

This looks a lot to me like someone's shiatty Maya project for school, or one of those "Come up with a half cocked invention idea" contests that some schools put on and reward for Creativity, as opposed to "Will it actually work". Like that stupid "Gel in the Wall Refrigerator" that was going around for a while.